A large telescope that will scan the entire visible sky every three nights is to be built on a mountain in Chile. The 8.4m (28ft) Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be 50 times as powerful as other survey telescopes. The observatory will be able to produce colour movies of objects that change or move on rapid timescales. It will join the existing Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, on Cerro Pachon, an 2,640m (8,800ft) mountain peak in northern Chile. The LSST should be under construction by 2009 with a planned completion date in 2012. LSST project manager Donald Sweeney said the LSST will be able to map the visible sky rapidly and continuously, providing a new way to observe the Universe. The observations will focus on astronomy and fundamental physics, including studies in dark energy and dark matter to understand why the universe is expanding. ... http://news.bbc.co.uk

The government of Ghana says it has sold off a controversial presidential jet, bought for former President Jerry Rawlings in 1999. The $5m raised for the Gulf Stream G111 will be used as a down payment on four Chinese jets for the military and a flight simulator, the government says. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5004366.stm

Montenegro voted by a slim margin to secede from Serbia and form a separate nation, erasing the last vestiges of the former Yugoslavia, according to the results Monday of its referendum. With nearly all ballots counted, 55.4 percent of voters chose to dissolve Montenegro's 88-year union with its much larger and sometimes overbearing Balkan neighbor. That is just over the 55 percent threshold needed to validate Sunday's referendum under rules set by the European Union. Hours before the official results were announced, independence supporters flooded streets of the capital Podgorica and other towns, even though their victory did not appear at all certain at that point. ...http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/22/world/main1638930.shtml?source=RSS&attr=World_1638930

There have been angry outbursts at the trial of Saddam Hussein. Chief Judge Raouf Abdel Rahman ordered guards to remove one of the defence lawyers from the courtroom. Bushra Khalil and the judge argued when he told her to wait for her turn to speak. When she persisted, court guards threw her out. Three defence witnesses were called on Monday. The trial has now been adjourned until Wednesday. Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and seven others face charges in connection with the killing of almost 150 Iraqi Shias in the town of Dujail. They were killed after a 1982 assassination attempt on the then-president. The defence began presenting its case last week. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5003944.stm

A woman fatally shot by her husband after authorities said he killed four of her relatives at a church service had gotten a temporary restraining order against him last year.Erica Bell, 24, filed her request in December 2005, citing family violence, The Advocate reported. The restraining order was dismissed the following month at her request, according to court records cited by the newspaper.Anthony Bell, 25, of Baton Rouge, was charged with murder in the deaths of his wife and her grandparents, great aunt and a cousin, officials said. He also was charged with kidnapping and attempted murder.Authorities said he abducted his wife and three children from the church service; the children were later found unharmed....http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/22/church.shooting.ap/index.html?section=cnn_us

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has warned that the global imbalances in world trade are unsustainable and must be tackled. Opening the global think tank's annual forum, Greek finance minister George Alogoskoufis said the situation posed major risks to global economic stability. He told reporters that although it was too early to talk of a "crisis" in the markets, recent falls in global stock and currency markets could be the beginning of a "correction" based on uncertainty about the future direction of interest rates. And in a barely veiled criticism of the United States he called for greater international economic policy coordination to prevent large countries abusing their position and practicing "beggar-my-neighbour policies". ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5004948.stm